cynthia von buehler's period balls

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3 questions for Cynthia von Buhler
Artist in the window

Photo: Cinzia Reale-Castello

1. You're one of the artists currently working in a makeshift studio in the window of Exit Art gallery. Will it cramp your style?
   I don't think so. I like being in a small space—isn't it cozy in here? I can work on my Cynth Balls. I was just filling them with menstrual blood because I got my period today. I keep the blood in this jar with the top on tight. It looks really pretty, doesn't it? Like candy. The balls with the menstrual blood in them go in the Cynth-O-Matic machine. And so do the balls with the pubic hair, the eyelashes and the fingernail clippings. If you put in 25 cents, a ball comes out.
2. What are some of the pieces here in the window with us?
   Well, this sculpture, The Artist, paints, talks, and her eyes light up. She says really pretentious things that don't make any sense at all. She used to give out pieces of art, but then I made The Art Dealer, who now gives out the art and collects the money. It makes more sense: The art dealer gets all the money while the artist works her butt off.
3. Howard Stern owns one of your works. What is it?
   I painted a portrait of him for an Us article. He liked it, and the E! network bought it for him as a present. He was on TV after he got divorced, and he said that his wife took everything he had except that painting. I had depicted him as a Jesus figure, so that's why she didn't want it.—Kate Lowenstein

 

[inkybmistro]

vanessa tiegs really opened the doors for menstrual artists.

 

[aura]

period balls > three questions

 

[minxnim]

im like dying inside this thread because didn't another female artist at hampshire college do this same thing like 8 bejillion years ago?

 

[xfer]

oh you mean the rapper chick who broke chairs and bottles right before kayo dot played!

 

[azal]

that lady just needs some good deep-dicking I think.

 

[xfer]

she's a friend of my punk-lesbian old BC co-worker. lives in "castle von buehler", or used to.

 

[minxnim]

no i mean that girl that moved to massart and used to have a performance show throwing her bloody tampons at people and put them in gumball machines so people could buy them.
old news bro. old news.